Archival Studies at Pitt

Faculty

There is currently one full-time archives professor at Pitt, Dr. Richard J. Cox . The program hopes to hire a second full-time professor in the coming academic year.

Description of the Program

For general information about the Archival Studies Program please see www.sis.pitt.edu/~lsdept/archives.

Classes

Archival Studies is a concentration within the Department of Library Sciences program at Pitt. There are four required core courses for the Masters of Library Science (MLS) degree:

LIS 2000	Understanding Information
LIS 2001	Organizing Information
LIS 2002	Retrieving Information
	A course in management (Note: LIS 2220 and LIS 2221 are required archives courses and either will fulfill the management course requirement)

There are also five required courses in the Archival Studies concentration:

LIS 2220	Records and Information Resources Management
LIS 2221	Archives and Manuscripts Management
LIS 2222	Archival Appraisal
LIS 2223	Archival Access and Advocacy
LIS 2224	Archival Representation.

Additional courses are required to obtain the 36 credits needed to graduate. These are chosen in consultation with your advisor to fulfill your career goals.

For information about Ph.D. studies please follow the link for the description of the Archival Studies Program.